More than two years after he pleaded guilty, developer David R. Dodd II is about to learn the penalties he will receive for crimes connected with his failed Capitol View Commerce Center project in Harrisburg.

Rambo already has ruled that Dodd must pay nearly $21 million in restitution to Harrisburg, Dauphin County, a local bank and nine contractors who were left holding the financial bag when work stopped on the uncompleted $28 million project at Herr and Cameron streets in the spring of 2008.

The question that will be answered during the sentencing hearing is whether Dodd, 45, of Hampden Township, will go to federal prison. He could serve decades behind bars if Rambo imposes the maximum penalties allowed for the charges of money laundering and misusing federal funds to which he pleaded guilty in November 2011.

Dodd already has forfeited $1.15 million in assets that were seized by federal investigators. He appealed Rambo's restitution order to the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which has put the matter on hold pending Dodd's sentencing.

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